Kanbar Entertainment

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Kanbar Entertainment is an independent film production studio founded by private investor Maurice Kanbar and Hollywood veteran Sue Bea Montgomery in 2002. The studio produced Hoodwinked!, which was one of the first computer-animated films to be entirely independently financed. The film was produced on a budget of less than $8 million, considerably less than the typical budget for an animated film. To save costs, Kanbar Entertainment founded the animation studio Digital Eye Candy in Manila, Philippines to create most of the film's animation in which hired a small group of independent animators. The Weinstein Company signed on as the film's distributor near the end of its production and it was released in December 2005. The film received mixed reviews, but was financially successful, earning over $110 million worldwide. Hoodwinked!'s success led to a sequel being announced in January 2006. Although Kanbar Entertainment originally intended to finance the film entirely on its own, Kanbar was...

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